From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f180.google.com (mail-wi0-f180.google.com [209.85.212.180]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB6DD8E5A for ; Thu, 1 Oct 2015 10:46:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: by wicfx3 with SMTP id fx3so17742944wic.0 for ; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 01:46:27 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=DG6CUsB76kcEDKuXMTYTEz/JvPrUAGvrgrbm42GDIs4=; b=IffztlCVzd0rKXXEefKyfGsH/En67FzWAe5FuxegdIa/5J6TRTvTKDIJsVRrC43SYh D5VV3SqA+wu6RUPbQB3s1+m5lnRwQWTGwusbC6ec5fjEE0vonB8DMqx+OfBAM8iNg18n D+/Zovvoq3l7Z1J7aMrzpxDmMadf5lVimOWsiaJN6Ve7tHhSn9yAb9zkBcw0wM8z82mf gHbxXJ08pe5et75NX45ZB/RZh9RsG2iMbZpIVZ+mmm/fqQXYAMZ9IllaBTwC1JAX08k1 xb+h/4YpaKNci/x952h/r4Ot5YhLtpM8VIjQA3sCdKwsTRB0IlRNsj1KwuXlyd/Qx8YW RtpQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQn8iUdl7K7+cJR2Vy5l98bOAo5i/DDBLmCwMEGVdbT4tZ4ptQLIfvbfHbjbruqNENjVkTDj X-Received: by 10.194.249.34 with SMTP id yr2mr9083763wjc.90.1443689187754; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 01:46:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.0.165] ([37.142.229.250]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id fx2sm1979411wib.24.2015.10.01.01.46.25 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 01 Oct 2015 01:46:26 -0700 (PDT) To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Avi Kivity References: <560BCD2F.5060505@cloudius-systems.com> <20150930150115-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <560BD284.7040505@cloudius-systems.com> <20150930151632-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <560BDE24.8000308@scylladb.com> <20150930165359-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <560BF782.4070308@scylladb.com> <20150930175848-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <560C0171.7080507@scylladb.com> <20150930204016.GA29975@redhat.com> <20151001113828-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> From: Vlad Zolotarov Message-ID: <560CF2E0.9050002@cloudius-systems.com> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 11:46:24 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20151001113828-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Having troubles binding an SR-IOV VF to uio_pci_generic on Amazon instance X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 08:46:28 -0000 On 10/01/15 11:44, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:40:16PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >>> And for what, to prevent >>> root from touching memory via dma that they can access in a million other >>> ways? >> So one can be reasonably sure a kernel oops is not a result of a >> userspace bug. > Actually, I thought about this overnight, and it should be possible to > drive it securely from userspace, without hypervisor changes. > > See > > https://mid.gmane.org/20151001104505-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com Looks like a dead link. > > > >> -- >> MST